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This Background Brief addresses five questions: (1) Will Thailand, as ASEAN Chair, “be tough” on China in 2019? (2) How will Thailand perform as ASEAN Chair? (3) Will Thailand, as ASEAN Chair, take up China’s request to “fast track” negotiations on a Code of Conduct? (4) How important is it that the Code of Conduce be legally binding? And (5) Will the COC be relevant given that China has completed building on and militarizing its artificial islands in the South China Sea?

Author

Carlyle Alan Thayer

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EN